Mona Yat-wah Fong, Lady Shaw (27 July 1934 – 22 November 2017) was a Hong Kong

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and television producer and production manager. She was born Lee Meng-lan in Shanghai.

Career

Fong achieved fame as one of the most popular nightclub singers and recording artists in Singapore and Hong Kong in the 1950s, especially singing English covers of top hits of the time. She married media mogul Sir

Run Run Shaw Sir Run Run Shaw (born Shao Renleng; 19 November 1907 – 7 January 2014), also known as Shao Yifu and Siu Yat-fu, was a Hong Kong businessman, filmmaker, and philanthropist. He was one of the foremost influential movie moguls in the East As ...

(his second marriage) and became Deputy Chairman and General Manager of

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and

Television Broadcasts Limited Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB; zh, t=電視廣播有限公司) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong. The company operates five free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Hong Kong, with TVB Jade as its main Canton ...

(TVB). Fong produced over a hundred films, the final one of which was '' Drunken Monkey'' in 2002. Effective 1 January 2009, she was appointed General Manager of TVB. Fong retired from TVB in 2012.

Recordings

One of her albums ''from Hong Kong The Voice of Mona Fong'' also referred to as ''Mona Fong Meets Carding Cruz'' featured arrangements by Celso Carrillo and the songs "Karoi Sakurambo", "Millionaire", "

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" and "Delilah". It was released on Hong Kong's

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label. In 1968 an EP ''Merry Christmas'' was released on the

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label. It also featured Tsin Tsing and Betty Chung. One of her biggest original hits was the title song to the 1966 film, "The Blue and the Black" (藍與黑).

Filmography

Films

This is a partial list of films. * 1957 Mambo Girl - Fong Yat-Wah * 1967 Sing High, Sing Low * 1969 Diary of a Lady-Killer - Singer * 1978 Legend of the Bat - Producer * 1978 The Cunning Hustler - Producer * 1978 Godfather's Fury - Producer * 1982 Cat Vs. Rat - Producer

References

External links

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Hong Kong Cinemagic: Mona Fong Yat Wah

Mona Fong at senscritique.com
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